The feast of the dissection of the Holy Cara of the Forerunner in Jerusalemtranslated

Prior to the Venerable Metropolitan of Hellenoupolis, Mr. Joachim, the memory of the dismemberment of the Holy Cara of Saint John the Forerunner, in the Holy Monastery of the same name in the old city of Jerusalem, was celebrated with the old calendar, yesterday September 11, 2026. During the Divine Liturgy, His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem visited the Holy Monastery. Theophilos accompanied by Agiotaphite Fathers.

The announcement of the Chief Secretariat in detail:

On Friday, August 29/September 11, 2026, the memory of the beheading of the holy chariot of Saint John the Forerunner and Baptist of Christ was celebrated by the Patriarchate.

On this holiday, the Church remembers that John, "the greatest of the Prophets, pointed to the Lord with his finger and cried out: Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world", (John 1:29), because he controlled Herod the tetrarch because he cohabited with Herodias, his brother Philip's wife (Mat. 14, 1-13), his head was circumcised, when after the birthday of the resurrected Herod, Salome, the daughter of Herodias, danced and loved Herod and promised to give her whatever she asks, up to half...